Policeman admits lying to court

Hence Phukie Bokowe was immediately discharged and acquitted after a prosecution witness, Detective Inspector Ernest Ngwigwa admitted he is lying when under grilling by attorney Lyndon Mothusi.

The policeman must have felt like a punch-drunk boxer following a blistering attack on his credibility as a witness by Mothusi who at one stage asked him if he drank milk. Ngwigwa replied in the negative, which made even Makati-Lesang to interject and ask whether he meant he was never breast-fed as a baby. He said he never visited the scene of the crime. This made Mothusi to ask why and how he came to be a state witness in the first place.